Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-09
PACIFIC COAST.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD UNION
CALIFORNIA.



YREKA, February Sth.-The snow block
ade below Mount Shasta is still unbroken.
Communication with Oregon is not blocked
by the storm. Sleighing is getting good.
Travel is breaking the deep snow. The
mail carrier was twenty hours behind from
Sawyer's Bar, and caused belief that he
had persisted in the snow. A party which
had started out to rescue him met him four
miles from Etna. 4
FRESNO, February Sth.-The rainfall for
the twentyfour hours up to o'clock this
morning is 53 of an inch 1t is still rain
ing.
MERGED, February Sth.-Tbe rainfall for
the storm up to 7 o'clock this morning at
Smelling was 40 of an inch. and at Huff
mans ranch, on Bear creek, at II o'clock
to-day, so of an inch had fallen. The
rainfall at this place, up to Z o'clock this
morning, was % of an inch.
GONZALES, February Sth.-It commenced
raining last night about II o'clock, and
has been raining most all the time since
Total tall up to o'clock to-day for the
storm, 1.16 inches; total for the season,
2.60 inches. The weather is still cloudy
| and unsettled, with snow on the noun
tdins.
FLORENCE. February Sth-The rain
storm which commenced last Saturday
evening still continues, with occasional
intervals of abatement The farmers are
jubilaEt over the frightened prospects.
WHEATLAND, February Sth.-The weather
is cloudy and cool Prospects for large
crops are the very best. Between and s
inches of rain have fallen for the season so
| far.
SUIsUN, February Sth.-A cold north
wind has been blowing a gale all day.
Tonight it is drilling, with prospects of a
wet night.
Sr HELENA, February Sth-The rainfall
here to date this season is 1151 inches,
| against 30.39 last season, and 1911 in 1885.
| During the late storm 3.7S inches fell. The
weather is still unsettled.
| SoLEDAD, February Sth-1 P. Mt COM
| menced raining last evening at o'clock
very steadily, and continued until this
morning. Fifty-iive hundredths of an inch
| fell making 1-16 inches this storm at
o'clock, and 269 inches for the season. 1t
| has been raining steadily up to this hour
| without wind. 1t is the finest rain imagin-
able. Salinas river is just beginning 10
raise slightly at this point. The Arroyo
| for more rain.
Weather Indications.
SAN FRANCISCO, February Sth.-Indica-
! tons for the twenty-four hours commence
ing at A. NJ. February 9th California,
| light rains from San Francisco south fair
weather north OF San Francisco.
House Robbed-A Mystery.
NEVADA, February Sth.-The house oc-
cupied by family named Kelly, on Wet
| Hill, near this city, was broken into last
| night, and SO in coin and two or three ar
ticles of clothing stolen. There is no clue
| 10 the burglars.
On Washington Ridge, nine miles from
this place, two riderless horses, saddled
and bridled, have been discovered in deep
canyon. 1t is supposed they fell over a
| bank. One is down, but the other seems
| to be all right. Owing to the deep snow,
| they cannot be rescued. What has become
of the riders is a mystery, and fears are ex-
pressed that they may be buried in the
snow. 1t is supposed they were ridden by
| anti-debris spies. The snow is foot deep
| here on level. Traffic to all points above
| is stopped, and the mails have to be carried
| on SnOWShOpS